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Here are some highlights of the past week on CrunchGear: Review: L.A. Noire (And Giveaway) DIY Geodesic Dome On Kickstarter Review: The Barnes & Noble Nook Post-Apple Palate Cleanser: More Swiss Army Axes! Player 1 Start: The Wii U Vs. … Continue reading →

Google Chrome 11 — which just recently made the move to the browser’s beta channel — has received a minor update that gives developers access to two new APIs. The first is a full-featured proxy API, which will, for example, … Continue reading →

AT&T in October dropped a whole mess of devices on us with nary a release date. That changes today, however, as AT&T announced on Twitter that the Pantech Pocket and Samsung Doubletime and Captivate Glide will be available starting Nov. … Continue reading →

Think only jerks can catch a break in this cruel world? Nope. David Rand, a Harvard University researcher, studied the behavior of 800 individuals he recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to prove it. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/xhPOL0-MlkA/scientifically-speaking-nice-guys-do-not-actually-finish-last Jason Lawrence Ron Lechien … Continue reading →

Learning a foreign language on your own can be difficult because it’s almost impossible to tell if you’re pronouncing words correctly.  The Hello-Hello World iPad app offers language courses for 11 different languages, and it has a social aspect that … Continue reading →

Apple on Friday evening issued a recall to owners of some first generation iPod Nano MP3 players, citing a overheating issue affecting an undisclosed number of units. may be eligible for a replacement device. According to the Replacement Program page … Continue reading →

iTunes 10.5.1 is now available, and with it comes iTunes Match, Apple’s cloud-based music subscription service. For $25 a year, Match drops any track you purchase from iTunes directly into Apple’s iCloud. Songs are saved to the cloud automatically, so … Continue reading →

Nearly two years after consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over Facebook’s privacy policies, the social network and the FTC are close to an agreement, according to a recent report. The deal between the … Continue reading →

The best Kickstarter projects are the ones you find that are already funded. Like JR Sanchez’s MobileMount which uses twice the suction cups as other mounts, for twice the sticking power. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/7xAcYHnVjpA/like-rainbows-double-suction-cup-mounts-are-just-better Paul Friedrichs Steven Frossard Eric Geboers … Continue reading →

The Kinecthesia is a Kinect wired to a set of motors that allows the blind to navigate a room or open space, relying on feedback through the motors to assess objects in their path. The project, created by University of … Continue reading →